1963 Resolution Condemning the United Nations

Sea Breeze

Quote from that World Wide Resolution:

THAT, in order to prevent the destruction of the nations by their own means in war, the nations further refused the surrender of their sovereignty to God’s Messianic kingdom by setting up a society of nations, which, since 1945, has taken the form and the name of the United Nations, with international headquarters at New York city. This international organization stands for world sovereignty by political men. For years men without faith in God’s kingdom have endeavored to get all people to worship this international image of human political sovereignty as the best hope for earthly peace and security, in fact, the last hope for humanity. To date 111 nations have given worship to this political image by becoming members of it. However, we, as witnesses of the Sovereign God Jehovah, will continue refusing to engage in such idolatrous worship, for we see, under angelic enlightenment, that God has smitten such idolaters with a malignant ulcer, symbolically speaking, that will spell death to them as spiritually diseased image worshipers who worship a man-made political creation rather than the Creator of heaven and earth;

w63 11/15 pp. 684-687

Yet, at few years later, the WT became an official Non-Government Organization (NGO) listed with the United Nations Organization. To be an NGO they had to agree to be in agreement with the UN charter.

I don't understand how this monumental hypocrisy didn't destroy the organization when word got out.

Thoughts?

jonahstourguide

Sea Breeze,

I was an 11yo indoctrinated by one parent during those years. The other parent a non believer.

I can still recall how we would shout an affirmation of "I do" when resolutions of this nature

were read out after special events,,, memorial I think. It was drummed into us that

we had to agree in the affirmative or we would be destroyed at the upcoming Armageddon

due in 1975. (this was in Australia)

I guess it was blissful ignorance and lack of the internet that made us believe every word

from the U.S.A. No one dared to question them for fear of copping the judgement as depicted

and illustrated in the publications we were forced to study as kids.

Yes the hypocrisy of the leadership only became evident after some years, especially after 1975

came and went.

The membership that were truly 'loyal' would not dare to question the reasoning of the leadership.

It would be said "they, ( the leadership) must be getting us ready for some significant events".

You know, "preparing for Armageddon".

I think it has often been described on this site as 'sunk cost fallacy' and it still exists to this day.

I have associates who are fully in and when I raise certain inconsistencies they just clam up or change the subject.

Yes, Sea Breeze, to us that are enlightened it seems unbelievable that jws just do not get it.

Regards

jtg

BluesBrother

I think I remember this. As a teenager I was present at Twickenham when we did a resolution. The wording was so long and complicated that I lost the plot completely. At the end the speaker said “ All those in agreement shout ‘ Aye’” . So I shouted but had no idea what I was resolving to do…..

Phizzy

But some of those "Resolutions" fulfilled Bible prophecy according to the Org. !

TonusOH

I was thinking about the way the mind can compartmentalize stuff to keep contradictory things from creating dissonance. But I didn't even hear about the UN stuff until years after I was out. It's the information bubble that the organization creates that keeps the rank and file in line. If someone had told me that the WTS had registered as an NGO, I would have surely called them a liar. And if I had learned the truth, I would have deflected with "they just want to use the library" and "they still criticize the UN." And if someone had pointed me to the more supportive articles, I would have dismissed it as reading too much into nothing.

That bedrock assumption that the GB was god's voice and the WTS was god's organization had to be defended at all cost. First by rejecting any information that did not come from them, and otherwise using jusitifications and rationalizations to defend against anything that did not fit the assumptions. Being free of that is great. Recognizing how it works made me never want to get stuck in that kind of trap ever again.

Vidiot

TonusOH - “…That bedrock assumption that the GB was god's voice and the WTS was god's organization had to be defended at all cost…”

Even more so for the GB themselves…

…virtually every decision they make is, ultimately, to shore up that premise.

Bill Covert

I remember those resolutions, plural. 1963 was the release of the "Babylon the Great" book. During that time period everything was centered around the book Revelation and Daniel. There was great energy and excitement with in the organization, in those days. There was "new light" at every convention; Truth book, the Aid book. There was the surge in pioneering due to the war.

My comment would be; that the hardships experienced by the brothers in Russia, Ukraine are a direct result of the resolutions that attacked Babylon the Great. Those resolutions were sharp sticks in the eye, "goads" into the eyes of the "harlot". During that time period the USSR was the "king of the north". The "king of the north" was communist, anti god.

So my comment would be; that the Russian Orthodox Church has a long memory.

Beth Sarim

Please hang on to your Revelation Climax book. 1988 original edition.

🙂

nicolaou

I don't understand how this monumental hypocrisy didn't destroy the organization when word got out.

If I pointed out the monumental hypocrisy at the heart of Christianity would it destroy your faith Sea Breeze?

Sea Breeze

So my comment would be; that the Russian Orthodox Church has a long memory.

Good point.

1963 Resolution Condemning the United Nations

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